Arizona 'Abortion Pill' Rule Faces Challenge

A federal court next week is set to hear a challenge to a new Arizona regulation that would require so-called abortion pills to be administered under a protocol that abortion-rights activists say is outdated and overly restrictive.

The rule's challengers say new protocols developed since the drug's approval in 2000 offer pregnant women a simpler, less expensive and equally effective treatment. They say the regulation, set to take...